If you’re into your fitness media, follow a couple of healthy-foodie Instagram accounts, or perhaps just allow a couple of popular women’s titles to grace your Twitter feed, then the term ‘Flex Bowl’ might have been dancing around your online universe for a little while. At TWC, we only discovered Flex Bowls today, but we’re pretty sure we’ve been enjoying them for years.
We’ll let Women’s Health give you the dictionary definition:
“Essentially, a flex bowl can contain anything you wish, hence the name. Their primary role is to ensure that you use up any dangling macros [macronutrients – fats, proteins, carbohydrates].”
In other words, Flex Bowls are an opportunity to munch down any proteins, fats or carbohydrates that you were meant to eat during the day to meet your dietary requirements (which of course you carefully calculate each day based on activity), in one neat little bowl ideally consumed before bed.
Many people using ‘Flex Bowls’ – and there are a lot of them, there’s over 51,000 posts on Instagram – are looking to meet their protein and carb needs after a workout. Though some of the examples we’ve seen are beautifully healthy in their combinations of vegetables, yogurt and mini meat morsels, others are a bit more brutal in their calorie load – peanut butter and Reese’s cups feature heavily. Here are a few examples…
